Egypt:   Mursi - Security Will Deal Strictly With Hardline Hesba Groups

Aswat Masriya, 2 July 2012

Security will sternly deal with hardline religious groups that call themselves "Al-Hesba", President Mohamed Mursi wrote on his Twitter account. Mursi expressed his complete… Read more »

Egypt:   Mursi Heads First Ministerial Meeting As President

Aswat Masriya, 1 July 2012

Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi held his first ministerial meeting in the presence of Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri on Sunday. Read more »

Egypt:   President Spokesman - Return of Elected Bodies By Law or New Elections

Aswat Masriya, 1 July 2012

When President Mohamed Mursi said that elected bodies will resume their work, he meant this would be done through legal, judicial procedures, or otherwise new elections will be… Read more »

Egypt:   Mursi Meets With Chief of Staff, Foreign Minister

Aswat Masriya, 1 July 2012

President Mohamed Mursi met with Lieutenant General Sami Anan, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, on Sunday evening at the Presidency in Masr al-Gedida, the Middle East News… Read more »

Egypt:   Bishara Urges Mursi to Form National Unity Govt

Aswat Masriya, 1 July 2012

Prominent Arab intellectual Azmi Bishara urged Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi to form a pro-revolution national unity government instead of a technocrat government. Read more »

Egypt:   Mursi Says He Is In Charge of Army

Aswat Masriya, 30 June 2012

President Mohamed Mursi declared he is now in charge of Egypt's army, announcing his acceptance of the power transfer from the military council to him. Read more »

Egypt:   Morsi's Inauguration Celebrated at Cairo University

Egypt Online, 30 June 2012

President Mohammed Morsi witnessed a celebration at Cairo University for his inauguration as the country's president after he was sworn in before the General Assembly of the… Read more »

Egypt:   Moussa - Mursi's Speech Focused On the Future Egypt

Aswat Masriya, 30 June 2012

The speech president Mohamed Mursi gave on Saturday at Cairo University's Great Celebration Hall is of great importance and is very well-prepared, Amr Moussa, former Secretary… Read more »

Egypt:   Shafiq Says Was Notified He Won Presidential Race

Aswat Masriya, 30 June 2012

Ex-presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq has said that many - whom he did not name - notified him that he was the winner of Egypt's presidency, adding that he was startled when he… Read more »

Egypt:   Mursi Takes Symbolic Oath in Tahrir Square

Aswat Masriya, 29 June 2012

President-elect Mohamed Mursi took a symbolic oath of office before hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in Tahrir square on Friday evening on the eve of his oath taking before… Read more »

Egypt:   Muslim Brotherhood Rises Under a Military Thumb

IPS, 28 June 2012

The Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi faces a host of daunting political hurdles after being officially declared Egypt's first freely-elected president on Sunday. Read more »

Egypt:   Presidental Inauguration Set for Saturday

Aswat Masriya, 29 June 2012

President-elect Mohamed Mursi will take the oath of office next Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Supreme Constitutional Court before the court's general assembly, a statement of the… Read more »

Egypt:   Will Mursi Make a Deal or Defy Military?

ISS, 28 June 2012

It was with a great sigh of relief that the announcement of the official results of the presidential elections in Egypt was received both within and outside Egypt. Read more »

Egypt:   Mursi Takes Power With Stripped-Down Powers

Chatham House, 26 June 2012

Egypt's new president, Mohammed Morsy, is the country's first civilian leader for more than 60 years, and the first Islamist politician in the modern Arab world to come to power… Read more »

Egypt:   The Electoral Victory of Political Islam

Fahamu, 28 June 2012

The electoral victory of the Muslim Brotherhood and of the Salafists in Egypt (January 2012) is hardly surprising. Read more »

Egypt:   Morsy Meets Police Leaderships

Egypt Online, 27 June 2012

President-elect Mohamed Morsy met on Tuesday 26/6/2012 the police leaderships at the Police Academy. Read more »

Egypt:   Govt Prepares Swearing-In of President

Aswat Masriya, 27 June 2012

Egypt's presidency will announce where the Muslim Brotherhood's President-elect Mohamed Mursi will officially be sworn into office, on Thursday. Read more »

Egypt:   Liberal Ex-MP Warns of Brotherhood Usurping Army

Aswat Masriya, 27 June 2012

Former member of the dissolved parliament, Mohamed Abu Hamed, warned of what he described as "Muslim Brotherhood penetration in the military institution" and usurping Egypt's army,… Read more »

Egypt:   Administrative Court Decides Suspending Decision On Power of Judicial Seizure

Egypt Online, 27 June 2012

The Administrative Court at the State Council decided on Tuesday 26/6/2012 suspending a decision by the minister of justice on granting military men the power of judicial seizure. Read more »

Egypt:   Army Cannot Pass Laws Without President's Approval

Aswat Masriya, 27 June 2012

The return of legislative power to the ruling military council after the Constitutional Court's decision to dissolve parliament is a limited authority, restrained by the approval… Read more »

Egypt:   The Revolution Undone?

UNIRIN, 25 June 2012

Mohamad Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) has been declared the official winner of the first free Egyptian presidential elections. Read more »